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Books
 

The Collected Writings (1991-2024) of a Mortal to Death: Jalal Toufic, vol. 1 (which includes my new book, The Unreviewed Writings of a Peerless Thinker, 2020-2022). New York; New Haven: No Place Press (distributed: MIT Press), 2025 (the book is available for purchase on Amazon).

Art Works and Traces. Forthcoming Books, 2024 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Explicit and Implicit Variations on Hitchcock. Lebanon: Beirut Art Center, 2023 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Radical Closure. Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2020 (published in conjunction with the Singapore Biennale 2019 Symposium, Right Here, Right Now: Constellating Worlds in the Contemporary) (available for download as a PDF file here)

Postscripts. Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2020 (available for download as a PDF file here; for those who prefer to have a print copy in addition to the e-publication, they can purchase one at Idea Books)

What Was I Thinking? Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2017 (available for download as a PDF file here; the e-book is available for purchase at Apple or Amazon)

The Dancer's Two Bodies. Sharjah, UAE: Sharjah Art Foundation, 2015 (available for download as a PDF file here)

What Were You Thinking? Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD, 2011 (available for download as a PDF file here)

The Portrait of the Pubescent Girl: A Rite of Non-Passage. Forthcoming Books, 2011 (available for download as a PDF file here)

What Is the Sum of Recurrently? Istanbul, Turkey: Galeri Nev, 2010 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Graziella: The Corrected Edition. Forthcoming Books, 2009 (available for download as a PDF file hereand in lower resolution here)

The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster. Forthcoming Books, 2009 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Undeserving Lebanon. Forthcoming Books, 2007 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Two or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You. Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2005 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Âshûrâ: This Blood Spilled in My Veins. Beirut, Lebanon: Forthcoming Books, 2005 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Undying Love, or Love Dies. Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2002 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Forthcoming. Berkeley, CA: Atelos, 2000; 2nd ed., Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2014 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Over-Sensitivity. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996; 2nd ed., Forthcoming Books, 2009 (available for download as a PDF file here)

(Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film. Barrytown, New York: Station Hill Press, 1993; 2nd ed., Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2003 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Distracted. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1991; 2nd ed., Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 2003 (available for download as a PDF file here)


Film Scripts

Jouissance in Postwar Beirut (Forthcoming Books, 2014; a searchable PDF file of the film script is available here)


Translated Books

— French:
     Le Retrait de la tradition suite au désastre démesuré, trans. Omar Berrada and Ninon Vinsonneau. Paris: Les Prairies ordinaires, March 2011 (available for download as a PDF file here)
  Distrait, trans. Guillaume Fayard. Paris: Les Petits matins, April 2011

— German:
     Vom Rückzug der Tradition nach einem unermesslichen Desaster, trans. Christoph Nöthlings. Berlin, Germany: August Verlag, 2011
  Credits Included/Abspann inclusive, trans. Christoph Nöthlings. Vienna, Austria: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2011


Booklets

Reading, Rewriting Poes The Oval PortraitAngelically, part of dOCUMENTA (13)s 100 Notes100 Thoughts, English/German (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2011)

Reading, Rewriting Poes The Oval PortraitIn Your Dreams (bilingual edition: English and Arabic) (Beirut, Lebanon: Ashkal Alwan, 2006)


Edited Books Available Online

Thinking: The Ruin, ed. Matthew Gumpert and Jalal Toufic (Istanbul, Turkey: Rezan Has Museum, 2010) (available for download as a PDF file here)


Essays Available Online

“The Future of the Creative Image,” in Facing Forward: Art and Theory from a Future Perspective, ed. Christoph Lindner, Margriet Schavemaker, and Hendrik Folkerts (Amsterdam University Press, 2015), 73-80.

“A Hitherto Unrecognized Apocalyptic Photographer: The Universe,” e-flux Journal, no. 55 (5/2014) (available for download as a PDF file here)

“If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? No,” E-Flux Journal, no. 50 (12/2013) (available for download as a PDF file here)

“Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Theein Less than 1/24 of a Second,” E-Flux Journal, no. 48 (10/2013) (available for download as a PDF file here)

“Made without Hands,” Floor, no. 2 (2013)

“The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Resurrected God!” E-Flux Journal, no. 39 (11/2012) (available for download as a PDF file here)

“The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Lived then Died!” E-Flux Journal, no. 30 (12/2011) (available for download as a PDF file here)

“The Contemporary Is Still Forthcoming,” E-flux Journal, no. 28 (10/2011) (available for download as a PDF file here)

“What Is the Sum of Recurrently?” E-flux Journal, no. 19 (10/2010) (available for download as a PDF file here)

The Aura: An Approach, in The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, catalogue issued in conjunction with the Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial (T.I.C.A.B.), 18 September–22 October 2009, 34–35

The Last Men in Beirut, /seconds, no. 9 (2008)

The Writing Is on the Wall, Museion Journal, no. 6 (June 2008)

Es Steht Auf Der Mauegeschrieben, trans. Nicola Behrman, Museion Journal, no. 6 (June 2008)

La Scrittura è Sul Muro, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 6 (June 2008)

Bury Me Dead, Museion Journal, no. 5 (April 2008)

Begrabt Mich Tot, trans. Nicola Behrman, Museion Journal, no. 5 (April 2008)

Seppelliscimi Da Morto, trans. Jennifer Scappettone, Museion Journal, no. 5 (April 2008)

To Think or Not to Think, Museion Journal, no. 4 (March 2008)

Denken Oder Nicht Denken, trans. Nicola Behrman, Museion Journal, no. 4 (March 2008)

Pensare O Non Pensare, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 4 (March 2008)

Realistic Magic; or, I Never Cared about Magical Realism, Museion Journal, no. 3 (February 2008)

Realistische Magie Oder: Magischer Realismus Hat Mich Nie Interessiert, trans. Nicola Behrman, Museion Journal, no. 3 (February 2008)

Magia Realistica, Ovvero Il Realismo Magico Non Mi Ha Mai Interessato, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 3 (February 2008)

A Hitherto Unrecognized Sublime Photographer: The Universe, /seconds, no. 7 (2007)

Dying Before Dying; or, Living to Tell the Tale, Museion Journal, no. 1 (Novembre 2007)

Morire Prima Di Morire; O Vivere Per Raccontare La Storia, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 1 (Novembre 2007)

Sterben Vor Dem Sterben Oder Weiterleben, Um Zeugnis Zu Geben, trans. Wolfgang Astelbauer, Museion Journal, no. 1 (Novembre 2007)

Quicker/Slower than Oneself Museion Journal, no. 0 (October 2007)

Più Veloce/Più Lento Di Se Stesso, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 0 (October 2007)

Schneller/Langsamer Als Man Selbst, trans. Wolfgang Astelbauer, Museion Journal, no. 0 (October 2007)

Black Holes Radiate Lovingly, Lina Saneh Body Studio, 30 May 2007 (available for download as a PDF file here)

Composites, /seconds, no. 5 (2007)

I Am the Martyr Sana Yusif Muhaydli, /seconds, no. 5 (2007)

'Âshûrâ'; or, Torturous Memory as a Condition of Possibility of an Unconditional Promise, Under Fire (2006)

Monstrous Units Over the Plateau


Interviews Available Online

Epilogue (interview with me by Hans Ulrich Obrist), Global Art Forum: Transcripts: 1, ed. Maria Finders (Dubai: IMC, 2007), 311–324

— Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Interview with Jalal Toufic, in Towards a Foreign Likeness Bent: Translation, ed. Jerrold Shiroma, Duration Press, 2005

— Aaron Kunin, Interview with Jalal Toufic, Rain Taxi Online, Fall 2001


"Thinking What's Thought-Provoking!": Book Series Edited by Me and Published by Sharjah Art Foundation

— Jalal Toufic, The Dancer's Two Bodies (2015)

— Matthew Gumpert, The Accident Waiting to Happen (2015)


Edited Journals Available Online

Qabla an yartadda ilayka Tarfuka: tajarib lubnaniyya fi as-sinama wa-l-vidiyu wa-l-tajhiz (Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee: Experimental Lebanese Cinema/Video/Installation Works), dossier, Al-Adab (January-February 2001): 1876
http://www.mafhoum.com/press/adab56/adab.htm



 

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